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If our goal is to be like God through embodying His character traits, then the way to believe that God is compassionate is by being compassionate (Luke 6:36), the way to believe that God is holy is by being a doer of His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy (1 Peter 1:16), and so forth...

The Law of Chest, the Law of the Spirt, and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses, are all the Law of God. In Romans 8:4-7, Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God. God has not commanded anything that is not in...

My argument is with you, not with God. I'm the one arguing in favor of obeying what God has commanded, so your argument is the one that is with God. You blatantly took those verses out of context. I've said nothing to deny any part of the NT.

Jesus affirmed in Luke 10:25-28 that the way to inherit eternal life can be found in Scriptures, so eternal life can certainly be found in Scriptures (Exodus 33:13, Matthew 7:23, John 17:3) and the Pharisees were correct to search for it there, but they needed to recognize that the goal of...

In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and in 1 Kings 2:1-3, God taught how to walk in His way. through the Torah. Jesus is also God's way because he embodied the Torah by setting a sinless example for us to...

You've still got bluster. So the what the Bible says about how to know God is wrong because of your experience with the Captain?

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in contrast with saying that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the reason why our entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven...

He was not, but these are completely separate issues. The purpose of slapping someone on the cheek was not to cause them bodily harm but cause them shame them as part of an honor/shame challenge where there were different monetary compensations depending upon whether someone was slapping them...

Someone can be alone apart from the company of other people while not being alone apart from the company of their pets, so someone can be alone and not alone at the same time in different sense. We are declared righteous by faith alone apart from works insofar as there are no works that we are...

It notably does not say that we will be saved first and the. We will do those works, but fair describes the content of our gift of salvation as being trained by grace to do those works.

Exactly, there is no sense in thinking that we are required to have perfect obedience to the Law of God in order to earn our salvation as the result when someone who has perfect obedience would not need salvation. We can't earn our salvation even as the result of having perfect obedience to the...

In Titus 2:11-13, the content of our gift of salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so we are not extrinsically required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result and we...

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in contrast with saying that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so there is no need to jump to another book in order to...

It is both. We have been saved from the penalty of our sin (Ephesians 2:8), we are being saved from continuing to live in sin (Philippians 2:12), and we will be saved from God's wrath on the day of the Lord (Romans 5:9-10). We are saved from the penalty of our sin the moment that we repent and...

In Deuteronomy 27-30, the way to be blessed is by relying on the Book of the Law while the way to be cursed is by. not relying on it, so Galatians 3:10 should not be interpreted as Paul quoting from that passage in order to support a point that is arguing the opposite of that passage. In...

The rich young ruler did not claim to have perfect obedience and Jesus did not deny that he would enter eternal life or say anything about him needing to have perfect obedience in order to do so. If we needed to have perfect obedience, then repentance would have no value, but the fact that...

We can't earn our righteousness even as the result of having sinless obedience to the Law of God, so that was never a requirement (Romans 4). In Romans 3:21-22, it does not say that the Law and the Prophets testify that the righteous of God comes as the result of sinless obedience, but rather...

Just throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Do you affirm or deny that God gave the Torah to Israel through Moses at Sinai?

The context of Habakkuk 2:4 does not present the righteous living by faith as being an alternative to living in obedience to the Law of God. In Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is the Law of God, and in 1 John 3:4-7, everyone who is a doer of righteous works in obedience to...